Disability Insurance Lawsuit Stories

Despite the concerted effort of FedEx to deny long term total disability benefits to its employee who suffered serious back injuries in a car accident while on the job, the appellate court upheld the district court’s order to FedEx to pay up.

Although Plaintiff filed an appeal with Lincoln after the initial claim denial, the Court grants Lincoln National Life Insurance Company's motion for summary judgment, finding Plaintiff failed to file a second appeal prior to filing suit.

Aetna blatantly denies disability insurance benefits to their own employee, but a Georgia Federal Judge sees through Aetna's nonsense and reverses the disability insurance denial.

Reliance Standard refuses to return money owed to Insured due to a misapplied SSDI offset. Do not allow Reliance to wrongfully offset your monthly disability payment.

A Massachusetts Court recently held that MetLife abused its discretion because it failed to consider evidence of the Plaintiff’s functional impairments.

Federal Court rules that claimant waited too long to file her ERISA disability lawsuit and dismisses case against Prudential.

Employee Terminated Despite Suffering From Disability Which Impacted His Work Performance Kevin worked for Ametek, Inc. from 2008 until July 2012, holding...

Criminal-Act exclusion held inapplicable where insurer failed to establish sufficient causal nexus between criminal act and insured's death.

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MetLife Ignores FCE and Vocational Report Supporting Claimant's Disability due to Fibromyalgia.

An Illinois federal court ruled that ERISA Plan administrator must conduct a vocational review when determining eligibility for total disability benefits.

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Judge Rules that Unum's Decision to deny benefits was wrong and remands the case to the plan administrator for a proper review.

Illinois court holds that ERISA does not have a blanket requirement that plan administrators obtain independent vocational experts analysis.

The Supreme Court determined that a statute of limitations provision in a long term disability insurance policy limited to three years from the date proof of loss was required was lawful.

Proof of Herniated Disc Over Ten Years Prior, Insufficient to Get Past "Other Limited Condition" Limitation in Plan.

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals finds plan administrator was arbitrary and capricious in denying claim based on administrator’s conclusion that claimant can work a theoretical job.

Important Case out of California for Claimants Stricken with Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Holding that Plan May Have a Financial Incentive to Cheat Claimants of Benefits Requiring Objective Evidence That is Impossible to Provide.

Kentucky District court finds MetLife's denial is arbitrary and capricious.

California Federal Court Judge Rules that California's Statute Banning Discretionary Clauses May Void Discretionary Clause in Aetna's Disability Insurance Policy, But Does Not Void Discretionary Clauses in Boeing's Long-term Disability Plan.